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Flashcards by Brian Hinkle, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Brian Hinkle
about 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Backcountry | Area west of the Fall Line in colonial North Carolina |
| Great Wagon Road | Path cut from Philadelphia, PA to Savannah, GA during colonial times that brought settlers to the Piedmont |
| Jamestown | First successful permanent English colony in North America |
| John Culpeper | Led a rebellion against the colonial governor of the Carolina colony to protest unfair laws |
| John White | Artist of the first two expeditions to Roanoke Island and the governor of the third one |
| House of Burgesses | First elected legislature in North America (Virginia) |
| Pilgrims | Group that settled Plymouth (MA) in 1620 |
| Ralph Lane | Military man who led Raleigh's second expedition to Roanoke Island |
| Roanoke | Island on which Raleigh attempted to plant a colony for England in the 1580s |
| Thomas Cary | Led a rebellion against colonial governors in the Carolina colony over religious laws opposing Quakers and other dissenters of the Anglican Church |
| Why settlers found colonies in New England? | Religious Freedom |
| Based on the most-accepted theory of archeologists, how did American Indians arrive in North America? | A land bridge between Asia and Alaska |
| What groups founded colonies in New England? | Separatists like the Pilgrims (Plymouth), Puritans (Massachusetts Bay), or dissenting Puritans (RI, CT, and NH) |
| What was the main reason for the huge decline in American Indian populations after the arrival of Columbus in 1492? | Disease |
| How do you know Raleigh intended to create a permanent colony with his third attempt to settle Roanoke Island? | He sent men, women and children instead of only men |
| Which groups moved to North Carolina during the colonial period? | Germans, Scotch-Irish, Highland Scots, Moravians, African slaves |
| What were some positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on American Indians? | New metal tools and weapons, guns, domesticated animals like pigs, cows, and chickens, horses that they used to hunt and conduct warfare |
| What were positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on Europeans? | Foods like potatoes, tomatoes and corn, wealth from minerals, and land through colonial takeover |
| What crop saved the Jamestown colony? | Tobacco |
| What were the founders of most Southern colonies after? | Riches through finding gold or silver, wealth through plantation farming, or trade with the Indians |
| What was the name of the artificial boundary created by England following the French and Indian War for the purpose of keeping American colonists from moving west? | Proclamation of 1763 |
| Who fought each other during the French and Indian War? | French and Indians opposed England and its colonies |
| What famous American led troops during the French and Indian War? | George Washington |
| Why did the Tuscarora Indians fight colonists in Carolina between 1711-1713? | They were cheated in trade, sold into slavery, and had to constantly deal with settlers trying to take land |
| What group was targeted by colonial laws in Carolina that led to Cary's Rebellion? | Quakers |
| What laws imposed on American colonists forced them to use British shipping and sell products directly to England? | Navigation Acts |
| Who did the Regulators oppose? | The governor of colonial North Carolina as well as corrupt local officials |
| What problems led to the Regulator Movement? | High fees charged by corrupt government officials coupled with the confiscation of farmers' property |
| Which battle ended the Regulator Movement in colonial North Carolina? | Battle of Alamance |
| What is the exchange of foods, medicines, diseases, animals, etc. between the Old World and New World called? | Columbian Exchange |
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